How to Use comprehension in a Sentence

comprehension

noun

• The students showed excellent reading comprehension.
• The issue is not one of comprehension, but of basic politeness.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 26 June 2017
• To think that anyone would want to inflict harm on a gathering of music lovers is beyond our comprehension.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2017
• This will support their narrative writing as well as retelling/comprehension skills for reading.
  — Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Press, 28 Sep. 2017
• This is better for viewers who can hear, need comprehension help or have English as a second language.
  — Toby Wong, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
• This appears to be related to the disruptive effect that scrolling has on comprehension.
  — Patricia Alexander and Lauren Singer, CNN, 6 Oct. 2017
• The volume on the radio hadn’t been turned high enough, and communications from the pit were garbled beyond the point of comprehension.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2017
• The idea that the president’s remarks in such a crisis were supposed to be for and about other people, not for or about him, seems beyond his comprehension.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 23 Aug. 2017
• The exam tests students’ competence in math and science, as well as reading comprehension and English grammar.
  — Melissa Korn, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• But when the reading assignment demands more engagement or deeper comprehension, students may be better off reading print.
  — Patricia Alexander and Lauren Singer, CNN, 6 Oct. 2017
• Kids who watched the videos showed significant comprehension and retention of the material, according to the release.
  — Kate Thayer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Learning by doing, in success or failure, provides a totally different level of comprehension.
  — Fletcher Page, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2017
• Weaknesses: There are a lot of questions here, beginning with Allen’s overall basketball comprehension.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 24 May 2017
• Now is not the time to be valuing speed at the cost of comprehension.
  — Lauren M. Singer Trakhman, The Conversation, 3 June 2022
• In other words, the gap in comprehension wasn’t a gap in skills.
  — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 9 July 2019
• The only thing was maybe her comprehension of plays and teaching her that and the why of things.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2018
• From there, the effort both teams gave to keep the ball off the floor was beyond comprehension.
  — Jacob Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2021
• The back and forth in this match is beyond comprehension.
  — cleveland, 3 Apr. 2020
• For all my comprehension the course book may as well be on patent law.
  — Cheryl Jarvis, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• At this stage of his career, rich beyond comprehension and three NBA titles on his résumé, James possesses a singular goal.
  — Adam Kilgore, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• The scenes of rage, violence and agony are so vast that the whole of it may still be beyond comprehension.
  — Jay Reeves, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
• To call the Cavs the favorite in the East only pays due respect to that level of comprehension.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The paper points out that there are two schools of thought about how to teach reading comprehension.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Can some kind of real comprehension of the world emerge through that prison house of language?
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• But the way her mom was stolen from her defies comprehension.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• The timing and the reach of the platform — the amount of people who saw it in such a short period of time — that was beyond the scope of my comprehension.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 29 Jan. 2022
• The all-carb, all-the-time diet the elves follow is funny, and beyond the comprehension of the soldiers stationed at the North Pole.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
• And then there’s the H.P. Lovecraft take on it, which is ‘aliens are beyond our comprehension.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2020
• There’s a bit of a change from season one to season two in the level of comprehension of the character.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Anthropic group showed two expert models excerpts from a science fiction story, then asked comprehension questions.
  — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2025